Microsoft has pushed out a pair of Windows 10 preview builds for the big update due later in 2019 (19H2), one of which has all the new features turned off – and those tweaks include some interesting moves, such as the promise of better battery life for laptops running certain processors. So ... Read More »
Windows 7 is great. But Windows 10 is better. Should I buy Windows 10? Windows 7 is still a reliable operating system, but mainstream support has already ended and security updates will cease in 2020. You might not want to update to Windows 10 but at that point it will be your ... Read More »
Windows 7 users opting out before Microsoft ends support (AFP) A few months before Microsoft ends support for its Windows 7 operating system (OS), the older OS experienced a large drop in July. In July, user-base of Windows 7 dropped 3.6 % — down to 31.8 % — in the overall PC ... Read More »
Tech giant Microsoft has released a beta version of the updated Cortana app for Windows 10. The new experience features a brand-new chat-based UI that is aimed at giving the user the ability to type or speak natural language queries. The company is testing a new chat-based UI for Cortana on Windows ... Read More »
Microsoft is tweaking how Cortana works in Windows 10. While the digital assistant might be disappearing from the Xbox One, Microsoft is testing a new chat-based UI for Cortana on Windows 10 PCs. The new beta app, which was originally spotted last month, is now available to testers, and it supports text ... Read More »
Windows 10 updates keep coming whether you install them or not. They generally bring a whole host of bug fixes and new features, but they’ve also been known to come with their own share of issues. While we don’t know what possible problems next year’s Windows 10 Version 20H1 will introduce, ... Read More »
Windows 10 has been stuck in a rut. Microsoft has had to issue several warnings in recent weeks and, elsewhere, it has been vague at best and worryingly deceptive at worst. But now the company has issued a new warning and it affects hundreds of millions of Windows 10 PCs. Computers running Windows 10 1803 are now ... Read More »
We are days away from the fourth anniversary of Windows 10’s initial release, which alsomarks the beginning of the “Windows as a service” era. By this time, you’d think Microsoft would have settled on an easy-to-understand set of rules that IT pros can follow for managing updates. Think again. For 2019, ... Read More »
It is finally official: Windows 10 is getting rid of passwords. What’s more, the move to a passwordless experience has already begun. Starting this week, Microsoft is rolling out a preview build (20H1 Build 18936 to be precise) of Windows 10 to members of the Windows Insider fast track ring ... Read More »
Gordon Kelly of Forbes is at it again, pushing his unique blend of scary words about Windows 10, mixed with an absolutely overwhelming lack of knowledge about the underlying technologies. I thought we had seen the last of Gordon three years ago, when he slinked away after credulously hyping some ... Read More »
